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"  Oh, dear god, no. N. Leroy Gingrich, Definer Of Civilization&amp;#039;s Rules And Leader (Perhaps) Of The Civilizing Forces, has had himself another big idea. It is, of course, grandiose to the point of megalomania \u2014 Newt, babe, you&amp;#039;re currently running fourth these days behind Romneybot 2.0, a colossal dick, and crazy Uncle Liberty (!); you don&amp;#039;t get to make rules to which anyone has to pay attention \u2014 and as full of shite as the Christmas goose. Nonetheless, he&amp;#039;s still a barrel of fun: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll basically have a national, electronic convention. I can imagine a circumstance, for example, where they suspended the keynote address on the first night and actually had a presidential debate in front of the delegates of the candidates.&amp;quot; Yes, because what this campaign needs is another Republican debate, this time in front of a half-swilled audience desperate to get back to the Mons Venus before the shift changes. I do have a serious question, though. Gingrich never shuts up about debating people. He&amp;#039;s always begging the president to engage him in six &amp;quot;Lincoln-Douglas-style&amp;quot; debates. He even made that part of the raison d&amp;#039;etre of his candidacy. Has anyone ever seen him actually debate someone, one on one, and John King doesn&amp;#039;t count. Sure, he was willing to mix it up with the rest of the folks in the clown car this year. but that&amp;#039;s not what I&amp;#039;m talking about. I&amp;#039;m talking about having another human being look him in the eye and tell him, &amp;quot;Newt, you&amp;#039;re 20 pounds of bullshit in a 10 pound bag. Let me tell you what you don&amp;#039;t know about (choose any topic).&amp;quot; I would pay good American cash money to see that. (Photo Illustration by DonkeyHotey via Flickr/Special to The Politics Blog) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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